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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Yesterday, I had hemp faux-oats with a handful of pecans and blueberries for breakfast.
I snacked on a Grenade Carb Killa mid morning as I had my food delivery coming a lot later than normal and had eaten breakfast earlier due to an asthma review.

Lunch was tuna with salad and pickled onions, gherkins and egg followed by some yoghurt and raspberries.

Dinner was eaten out at a pub so had 8oz rump steak with salad, followed by vegan chocolate and coconut torte and then a walk around the park in the pouring rain to try and work it off
 
OMG. Just concocted the most delicious dessert - if you can have dessert about 3 hours after breakfast (air fried pork belly pieces) and well before any second meal is planned.

Big scoop or two of Fage 0%; scoop of extra thick double cream; 7 or 8 raspberries; scoop of crunchy almond butter. Yum!

Dinner - assuming it’s needed - will be air fried chicken wings.
 
Well - it worked. BG stayed pretty reasonable (for me) all day and night - around the 6 - 7 mark. I didn't make it through to bedtime without eating a little extra - a little bit of cheese.

This morning was an early start because it is the day our bins go out for emptying (once every 2 weeks). I got up at 4.45 am (couldn't stay in bed any longer) but, instead of sitting around feeling sorry for myself, I had breakfast. But then, horror! No eggs. I was sure I had another dozen in the big fridge but when I looked the fridge was egg-bare. I was intending to have the last 2 rashers of streaky bacon with 2 eggs. So ...

Breakfast: avocado salad - not very filling but it didn't put my BG up.

Lunch: 12 noon - a chicken leg - not a very big one but it'll do for the moment. Will probably have to have something else later in the day.

3rd meal: meatballs in tomato sauce out of the freezer. Pretty sure I will have to resort to that.

BG was beginning to rise around 11.30, so I figured I had to do something about it. Hence lunch at 12.

I have my eggs now - Neil had an appointment to see his consultant about his sarcoidosis and then did some shopping. I did ask him to get 2 dozen eggs, but he ignored that and came home with one dozen, but it'll do for now.
 
For yesterday:
Breakfast - bullet resistant coffee (coffee, butter, double cream).
Late meal after 18:00 - nearly ripe avocado, cold chicken, mayo.

BG outstanding all day and through the night.

I'm not sure that this is a sustainable eating plan, though.
 
garyclark82 said:
@Rachox what do you have in your low carb coconut "porridge" please? Is there a recipe online for it?

Yesterday we returned from our night out in Southend except there was drama as had to take partner to hospital for a badly sprained foot!

Breakfast was a less than leisurely McDonalds double sausage and egg McMuffin (had expected to find a nice cafe but circumstances, eh?)
Lunch was a mixed salad with mackerel in tomato sauce followed up by a Grenade Killa bar (the peanut one, was quite nice!)
Dinner was a chicken leg with coleslaw, gherkins & pickled onions followed up with a Kvarg Raspberry and some blueberries
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Reading this I remembered I had this in my CMT recipes.

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Sunday bed 4.5 FBG 5.9 Swimming lesson day.
B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with ox tongue and coleslaw.
L. Nothing at swimming.
D. I made that rolled lamb again. Used middle gigot this time (no shoulder left) opened out the lamb, seasoned with salt, pepper, oregano and Italian herbs. Stuffed with sage & onion. Softened down a soffritto of celery, onion carrot, re-rolled and tied the lamb, sealed it then veg plus lamb into the Le Creuset casserole with a white wine/lamb stock and into a very slow oven to cook for 6 hours. I had it with peas and a broccoli/cauliflower thing. Lime chia pudding and raspberries. Usual campari and soda.

Monday bed 6.2 FBG 5.9

B. TAG and 2 slices of SLC toast with ox tongue and coleslaw.
L. Nothing
D. Remains of yesterday's lamb and stuffing with another broccoli/cauliflower thing. Grenade Ice cream bar.

Never ventured out today. Torrential rain. A lot of flooding in Edinburgh. Thankfully the Esk didn't break it's banks.

Hubby was busy making giant pot of soup the weather was so miserable.
 
A late breakfast kind of ran into an early lunch...
1 tablespoon ff greek, 1 tablespoon seeds, 2 strawberries
I avocado, 1 chicken drumsticks, 1 tablespoon coleslaw, lettuce, 6 olives
So why was I ravenous hungry 6 hours later?
A sirloin steak with peppercorn butter sauce made from garlic oil and cream, with broccoli. One scoop lidls low cal icecream, coffee flavour, with added double cream, yum yum
But one of the sweeteners in it is causing major tummy rumbles and gurgles. Reading the packet lists several possible culprits and some unidentified other ingredients. Why does processed rubbish taste so good?

@maglil55 what are the ice cream or lollies you get from Lidl? And mine is not stocking that raspberry chocolate , I walked up and down every aisle 3 times!
 
New experiment today, turned out very well!
A crustless quiche with leeks and tuna, and lots of cheese. Very happy I made enough for a couple more days :hungry:.

Must be even lower carb than I usually cook, not even a blip on the graph of my sensor, no insulin taken for it :).

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I had a Covid test taken this morning, got the result this evening - it’s negative, just need to continue isolating til Monday.
Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and raspberry carb killa bar.
Skipped lunch.
Mid afternoon: black coffee and chocolate chia pudding.
Dinner: bolognese with green beans followed by SF raspberry jelly, cream and LC chocolate and raspberry granola.
 
Rachox said:
Never mind the milk, what is the end of the slogan on your mug?!
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One of my favourite thrift store finds!
I choose to interpret as the added sugar in my veins making my life sweeter :happy:.
In Dutch, diabetes is still somewhat regularly referred to as 'suiker' (which annoys some people to no end, me not being one of them).

The mug goes well together with one of my T-shirts, which says 'I give vampires a sugar rush'. Although I'm afraid it would be a disappointment for a vampire looking for that, with my numbers.

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Hugs for the abrupt end to your hols @Rachox but what a relief it wasn’t at the start. Glad your test is neg.
no breakfast for me today as I had a PT session at 11:00 and that usually makes me feel a bit sick.
Lunch was butchers home roast topside slices with no-tato salad of courgettes and celery in a creamy dressing. Handful of 100% choc buttons afterwards.
Dinner was M&S hot smoked salmon fillet with prawns snd a very acceptable Marie Rose sauce ( made from Mayo, 0% yoghurt, tomato purée and a dash of Lea&Perrins) 1/2 avocado and salad leaves. Choc chia pud to follow.
@Goonergal your pud sounds wonderful but I absolutely daren’t try it. I’ve just finished yet another ‘last ever’ jar of almond butter ( forgot to post that just now - happened to look in the jar and there was just a couple of spoonfuls left - shame to put it back in the cupboard)
 
Sausages and a cheese omelette, mushrooms for breakfast.
Chicken and salad low carb wraps for lunch.
Savoury corned beef hash and veggies for dinner.
 
Breakfast was my faux-oats with raspberries
Lunch was a cheese and ham salad with assorted pickled items, followed up by yoghurt, the rest of the raspberries and blackberries and a sugar free jelly as I was really craving something "artificially" sweet.
Dinner was going to be a late one last night so I had a snack of a Fibre One bar & tried some biltong (not to my taste).
Dinner was half a jacket potato with butter and cheese, gammon, coleslaw and a side salad (got more gammon and the other half tonight)
 
DJC3 said:
Hugs for the abrupt end to your hols @Rachox but what a relief it wasn’t at the start. Glad your test is neg.
no breakfast for me today as I had a PT session at 11:00 and that usually makes me feel a bit sick.
Lunch was butchers home roast topside slices with no-tato salad of courgettes and celery in a creamy dressing. Handful of 100% choc buttons afterwards.
Dinner was M&S hot smoked salmon fillet with prawns snd a very acceptable Marie Rose sauce ( made from Mayo, 0% yoghurt, tomato purée and a dash of Lea&Perrins) 1/2 avocado and salad leaves. Choc chia pud to follow.
@Goonergal your pud sounds wonderful but I absolutely daren’t try it. I’ve just finished yet another ‘last ever’ jar of almond butter ( forgot to post that just now - happened to look in the jar and there was just a couple of spoonfuls left - shame to put it back in the cupboard)
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Am I the only person never to have had Almond Butter in the house?

Oh well. My life is about swimming against the tide. :)
 
BG high all night and still high this morning.

Breakfast: (insulin) the remains of my meatballs in tomato sauce, mashed down a bit and 2 eggs poached in it.

Had my appointment with the podiatrist. He said that Neil had the right idea about how to do my nails, but he should do them more often and told him what to check for. Neil, of course, knew it all before! Anyway, the podiatrist cut away the odd nail to expose the nail bed and he reckons the nail has already started growing again. That's good. Bit sore, but nothing too bad. He did my 6 monthly diabetic foot check while he was at it. He did say that people who are not diabetic can now only be seen if something happens to damage their foot, but being diabetic means that, while they can't do normal foot care, they will give me an appointment if I suspect that something small is going wrong. So it's not just that the podiatry department just won't see anyone these days.

On coming home, we found 4 parcels in the front porch. 2 I expected (just plastic containers for recycling and charity stuff - nothing very exciting) and 2 I wasn't expecting yet - tinned edamame beans for Neil. I was even more surprised that there were 2 parcels; the 6 cans that I thought I'd ordered were in one box. But, unknown to me, Neil had sent the same order to Amazon. I hope he doesn't go off edamame beans in the near future! He's gone off tofu (or it has gone off him) but Em jumped at the chance of having the pack in the fridge. She loves tofu apparently. She also went away with half of a watermelon.

I will definitely manage on 2 meals today - it's 4.30 pm and I'm not feeling particularly hungry. When I get to it, I will probably have more avocado and salad.
 
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